The Crowbar Massage Podcast
Forays into Culture, Politics, and Religion meant to provoke you to think deeper, expand your understanding, and better equip you to engage the world around and within you. It's commentary like an Eastern bloc massage, Olga is there to help you, but sometimes it hurts.
Episodes
37 episodes
Don't make it difficult to turn to God
My thoughts on being a pastoral presence with those who are turning to God, particularly LGBTQIA individuals. A look at Acts 15 and the implications on helpful and meaningful ministry with people moving from conversion into sanctification and d...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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52:46
Dante on Sexual Sin: Part 3
In Dante's Divine Comedy there are people in hell and heaven who were involved in heterosexual and homosexual sin. Understanding what the Bible teaches about sexual sin is critical to living a flourishing and fruitful life. Our sexual choices a...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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35:56
Dante's Inferno Canto 15: On homosexuality part 2
In this podcast I look at Act 10 and Acts 15 and how the Apostle's had to figure out how to handle all these pagans getting filled with the Holy Spirit and getting baptized. What now? How do you instruct them? What does a born again pagan do no...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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33:27
Dante's Inferno Canto 15: On Homosexuality part 1
Dante deals with homosexuality in The Inferno and Purgatory in surprising ways. In this episode I explore how his discussion about the sin, punishment and purification of sexual sin is refreshingly different than how most conversations on the s...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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33:27
Escaping the Siren: encouraging words from Dante on dealing with lust and temptation
In Purgatorio Canto 19 there is a profound and provocative dream that Dante has that I think provides a lot of help to anyone struggling with the sins of the flesh, temptations, pornography, lust and the shame and slavery they create.
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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33:09
Dante's Inferno Canto 6
We make our way into the 3rd level of the Inferno and we encounter the mythic beast Cerberus who's an embodiment of the multi-headed sin of gluttony. Join me as we explore the many ways we give ourselves to the incessant barking and growls of g...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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33:09
Dante's Inferno Canto 5
The second level of Hell is for those given to the sin of incontinence...no, it's not that, its the old world idea of those who have a 'lack of self-restraint' or allow their reason to be subject to their lusts, desires and passions.
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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43:55
Dante's Inferno Canto 4: The Nobel Castle
Canto 4: I discuss the opening lines of the Canto that describe Dante's physical experience of the supernatural world. We dig into the citizens of the 'rim' of Hell or Limbo where the "good people" go that's neither punishment or paradise. I di...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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43:55
Dante's Inferno Canto 3: The Choice of not Choosing
The Sad Souls that we encounter just pass the Gates of Hell are those who were neither Rebels or Faithful. We live in an era where indecision is the preferred decision, the mushy middle. In this Canto Dante faces the gates of Hell, the boatman ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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29:56
Dante's Inferno Canto 2: The Hero's Journey: Refusal of the Call
Everyone who is called to some kind of adventure, challenge, change or new endeavor will wrestle with courage. Many come to this point and talk themselves out of following through on their vision, obedience or dream. Fear and anxieties ca...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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30:45
Dante's Inferno: Canto 1
Dante is lost in the dark wood of his midlife. He's facing beasts that want to devour him and he's in deep need of a help. So begins the epic journey of the Inferno. A poem that confounds many and is often misunderstood or never experienced wit...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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45:02
Parenting Prodigals
LeeElla and I share our story about the challenges and opportunities discovered in parenting prodigal children. With the recent surrender of our eldest son to Jesus, we thought we would share our side of that decade plus journey. We hope to enc...
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49:02
A Blessed Defeat: the testimony of Frederick and Jules coming back to Jesus
"Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat." -C.S. Lewis
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52:19
Keys to your Prison
This is a sermon I preached at the Union Gospel Mission Men's Shelter on April 11th, 2023. Aaron LeBlanc gives the intro reading. There's some significant keys to experiencing the freedom of Jesus in this message for anyone seeking breakthrough...
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26:31
JWC Podcast: Alliances
Sermon Supplement: King Solomon's Alliances and how we get out of step with the Holy Spirit in our lives.
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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22:33
Baptized, Filled or Full of the Holy Spirit?
There's a lot of confusion about the work of the Holy Spirit in the Church and a lot of it comes from failing to talk about the work of the Spirit in biblically clear ways. In this episode I share some of my own journey with the Holy Spirit and...
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34:43
You Need The Power Of The Spirit
If you receive the Holy Spirit when you are born again should you expect anything more from the Spirit after salvation? What is the baptism of the Spirit? Does the Spirit come upon us today? Why did the disciples need to wait for the Spirit in ...
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54:29
What about the Asbury Revival? Awakening?
Let's talk about what God is or isn't doing at Asbury University.
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37:52
The Golden Calf, Law and Judgment
The Levites slay 3000 of their own people at God's command, is it moral and just? Let's talk.
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29:30
Thoughts on Slavery, Racism and Justice
This podcast digs deeper into the subject of slavery that teaching on Exodus called for in light of our past, present and future as American Christians.
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1:05:35
MLK Jr. Day Thoughts
When I was preparing for my sermon on the life of Joseph, I came to the place in Genesis 37:23-28 and 39:1 where he was sold into slavery. I realized that such a word demanded additional commentary than the sermon I was preparing. So this is a ...
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38:16
Musings on Myth, Monsters & Meaning Episode 3: Werewolves
On this episode we delve into the dark and macabre histories, stories and possible explanations given around the tales, trial accounts and mysteries surrounding Werewolves.
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:13:38
Musings on Myth, Monsters & Meaning Episode 2: Vampires
We believe there are truths to learn in revisiting the tales of myths and monsters. This podcast is our musings on Vampires from various cultures, literature and popular culture. We hope you find this conversation as interesting and meaningful ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:22:29
Episode 3: The Wheel within the Wheel
The prophet Ezekiel had a vision of the eternals where Christ dwells and in that vision He experienced a fantastical tour of the “living beings” that make up the throne of God. In his wild descriptions we find some archetype-like imagery ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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